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No Blue Skies (photo: Henning Wackerage)

No Blue Skies 110m VI,7**

A Fyffe and L Healey, 20 December 1990

A good but somewhat devious climb. Start left of the lowest point of the buttress, where an obvious diagonal line slants left. Climb the diagonal corner until a traverse left to gain a right-facing corner can be made. Climb this, then exit left onto a ledge by a horizontal slot. Continue up the crack line above to easier ground below the upper walls. Climb up to a fine right-facing flake crack, which is climbed to a ledge. Go to its left end (at this point it joins Wachacaha), then through the walls above by the crack, which is followed to the plateau.

The Melting Pot 90m V,7**

A Cunningham and A Nisbet, February 1987

The main feature of this route is the steep groove in the middle of the upper wall, which is gained by a fairly direct line. Start midway between No Blue Skies and the main diagonal fault taken by The Hybrid. Climb leftwards into a short, obvious groove with a tall, steep left wall. Leave the groove over a bulge and go left round an arete to more broken ground leading to the diagonal fault, which is followed to a large bay. Climb the overhanging groove then continue up the crack line to finish.